Heart Game: Sol [#01]

[idolpro]

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[bluerosestyle]

[!!!]

Ahh, you did it!

[sleeplessknight]

[a little more confident at that, see icon]

Ehe!

So we can keep moving forward now!

[bluerosestyle]

[oh no]

Yeah.

[sleeplessknight]

Oh! Actually! Please wait for a moment!

[QUICK AS A WINK ON, time to dash back to the main room to pick up another decent sword, similar to the one she had before, and bring it back]

There!

[bluerosestyle]

Ready to go?

[offers his arm! TOO BAD ESCORT LIVES DON'T EXIST ANYMORE AND WOULDN'T COUNT ANYWAY]

[sleeplessknight]

[but you're still doing this...]

Mm!

[takes his arm, onwards!!!]

[bluerosestyle]

[It's a reference. A reference!

Anyway, you walk! And as you walk, step by step, time seems to blur and become a sequence of days that are indistinguishable from one another...

You wake up at 5:30 in the morning.
You put on your work clothes, which are hand-me-downs from your brothers.
You buy yesterday's bread, hard to eat and almost expired.
You make your way to the Gigas Cedar, where you swing your axe at the tree for a set number of times a day, only to see half of that damage healed by the next morning.
You finish your work day by late afternoon, go back to your parents’ home where no one speaks to you beyond necessity, and sleep in a shared room.

Every eighth day, you do nothing-- there is no one who would spend time with you, after all. You are the reason the village’s darling, Alice, is gone.

Time continues to accelerate. Just like that, seven years pass.

Then-- with a flash, you find yourself with full awareness of reality again! That must have been a dream, right? A dream within a dream. You're a little disoriented, but at least now you have an arm to hold on to. Literally.]

[bluerosestyle]

...Yuuki?

[sleeplessknight]

[oh




oh no.




she stops all of a sudden, clinging onto his arm as tears start running down her face]

[bluerosestyle]

Wh--


Y-Yuuki? What... What happened?! Are you hurt?

[sleeplessknight]

[no, just

hugs him again!!!]

[bluerosestyle]

[CONCERN.....




but of course he'll hug her back, if that's what she wants]

[sleeplessknight]

[muffled, sniffly]

I don't want you to feel like that ever again...

[bluerosestyle]

. . . Me?

[sleeplessknight]

[nods]

[bluerosestyle]

What happened? We were just walking down the tunnel...

[sleeplessknight]

[shakes her head, pulling away]

Sorry... It's fine. I'm fine.

[bluerosestyle]

[lets her go]

I didn't see anything. But if something you saw here made you feel like that... I'm sorry.

[sleeplessknight]

No! Don't apologize!

[bluerosestyle]

...

Okay. But then... you shouldn't don't do it either.

[sleeplessknight]

[quickly wiping her face]

M-Mm...

[bluerosestyle]

[takes out a handkerchief-- offers it to her.]

At least this place seems straightforward...

[There are two doors again. One of them is glowing, the other one is frozen.]

[sleeplessknight]

[takes it, but then she stops again when they reach the doors.

there is nothing straightforward about this...]

You probably can't go in again, huh.

[bluerosestyle]

[He tries to touch it. This time, a sort of barrier made of numbers and bar codes appears between him and the door]

As expected.

[sleeplessknight]

[I HATE THIS, grabs his hand again to pull him away from the door]